The president, campaigning in Miami for Hillary Clinton and
Senate candidate Chris Murphy, said that “when you try to sow the
seeds of doubt in people’s minds about the legitimacy of our
elections, that undermines our democracy.”

“Then you are doing the work of our adversaries for them,” Obama
argued. “Because our democracy depends on people knowing their
vote matters.”

Obama was not the first to criticize Trump for the comments — not
by a long shot.

In the immediate aftermath of the final presidential debate on
Wednesday, Republicans trained their fire on their nominee for
threatening to upend a cornerstone of American democracy.

Arizona Sen. John McCain, the 2008 GOP nominee for president,
rebuked Trump in a statement, saying it is
the “American way” to peacefully accept election results.